“Robot” Actress Plays Robot in Japanese Play

Susana Polo

Published: Nov 13, 2010 02:28 pm

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Gemenoid-F made her stage debut this week in Tokyo, co-starring in a twenty minute play in the role of the android caretaker of a terminally ill girl.

For what it’s worth: If your robot is “completely controlled by a real-life human actress from a soundproof room behind the stage,” it’s not a robot. It’s a puppet. An animatronic puppet. Like this, and this, and this, and this.

We’ve had puppets for thousands of years. Calm down.

(via Geeks are Sexy.)

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